CNNMoney.com - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:38 For most of the past decade, the economy grew much stronger - but middle-class Americans had little to show for it.
Reuters International - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:33 JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni will easily win leadership elections in the ruling Kadima party to replace embattled Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, poll results showed on Thursday.
CNN World - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:24 The British Museum plans to display a statue of supermodel Kate Moss that it bills as the largest gold statue built since ancient Egypt.
Reuters International - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:22 ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Thousands of lawyers blocked roads across Pakistan on Thursday to press the government to reinstate judges purged by former president Pervez Musharraf, as militants attacked police in the northwest, killing 11 people.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 The catastrophe in which Spanair flight JK5022 exploded at the Madrid airport Wednesday spared 19 passengers, transforming them into the miraculous escapees of a disaster that took 153 other lives.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 In Bollywood, the motion picture industry remains resolutely star struck, even as special effects have helped to reduce Hollywood's dependence on big-name actors.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Economic troubles have spread from the United States to major countries in Europe and Asia, threatening businesses around the world.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 India's medal winners represent vastly different Indias that exist side by side and the intensity of the new aspirations of young Indians up and down the social ladder.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Nearly four months after the Myanmar delta was devastated by Cyclone Nargis, many of the people there feel haunted by the dead and uncertain of their future.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 I've never actually seen a convention where the energy was so absorbed by people who had lost the nomination, rather than the one who had won.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Across Europe, the lure of professional soccer is so strong that some mobile operators, especially in Britain, are beginning to report a rise in mobile viewing.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 The U.S. women's professional golf tour, which has been dominated by players born outside the U.S., has warned its members that they must become conversant in English or face suspension.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Though just a short ferry hop from Vancouver, the 50-mile stretch of craggy forest and marine parks that make up this coast feels far away from the city's action.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Anonymous sources often help newspaper reporters inform the public, but anonymity is also a tremendous aid to the resentful, the scandalous and the cowardly, and the signs are that the tidal of wave of anonymous comment made possible by the Internet is getting even bigger.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Excitement is building for the first concert by Paul McCartney in Israel, an epilogue to a tale that began in 1965 when authorities canceled a Beatles concert on "spiritual and cultural" grounds.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Suspected militants bombed a van carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people, as fighting between security forces and extremists flared across the tribal belt.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 The world's most profitable carmaker on Thursday cut its 2009 vehicle sales forecast by nearly 7 percent due to a severe downturn in Western markets driven by high fuel prices and the credit crunch.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 The extreme secrecy surrounding talks between the most senior American and Pakistani commanders on Tuesday underscores how gravely the two nations regard the militant threat.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Heavy asset write-downs stripped Crédit Agricole of all but a sliver of profit and Natixis swung to a loss.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 Dimitri Rogozin of Russia is a charismatic orator with a rascally sense of humor, once a nationalist who hung pictures of Stalin on the wall. But he is not sounding so extreme any more.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 More than 200 militants captured in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past two years have been handed over to their countries to be jailed and questioned, U.S. officials said.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 American military officials sought to refute claims that as many as many as 90 civilians, most of them children, were killed in airstrikes on a village in western Afghanistan last week.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 In Brazil, the government is encouraging farmers to produce more for export while prices are high. But Argentina is focused on encouraging farmers to sell more at home.
International Herald Tribune - Thu, 08/28/2008 - 04:21 A unanimous vote made Senator Barack Obama the first African-American to become a major party nominee for president.
